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The Lithuanian State Security Department, or VSD, respects Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' wish that intelligence information about interest groups' unlawful influence on the political system be declassified, but it has to assess any potential harm to the agency's ongoing investigation, a spokeswoman said.

"We respect the prime minister's request or wish to declassify as much information as possible, but VSD decides whether any harm will be cause to the investigation, which is a continuing operation," Aurelija Katkuvienė, the intelligence agency’s spokeswoman, told BNS.

Skvernelis said on Thursday that he would seek that the entire material of a parliamentary investigation into unlawful influence by interest groups and individuals on the country's political system be made public.